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/ 21 September 2005
Two-thirds of Swedes secretly read their partner’s cellphone SMSs, in particular when he or she nips off to the loo, a study published on Wednesday showed. Sixty-four percent of those questioned by mobile portal Halebop for Swedish operator TeliaSonera said they read their partners’ SMSs purely out of curiosity.
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/ 21 September 2005
With the excitement mounting ahead of Ireland’s Gaelic football final this weekend, one man has enlisted some extra supporters to back his favourite team — the animals on his farm. He has painted 30 ducks, 10 sheep, two cows, three goats and several geese in Kerry’s green-and-gold colours.
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/ 21 September 2005
West Indian cricketing legend Brian Lara on Tuesday met another hero, former South African president Nelson Mandela.
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/ 21 September 2005
The South African Police Service announced downward trends in 17 of the country’s most serious crime categories on Wednesday. Murder dropped by 5,6% in 2004 and 2005 from the previous financial year, attempted murder by 1,8% and serious assault by 4,5%, it announced in Pretoria.
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/ 21 September 2005
Six police officers at the Booysens police station in southern Johannesburg have been arrested on charges of corruption and assault, police said on Wednesday. This follows a recent television exposé.
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/ 21 September 2005
Botswana is embroiled in a new controversy over the fate of its San Bushmen after the government decided to close down part of the Kalahari game reserve, prompting clashes. British-based Survival International last month accused the government of shutting down the reserve as part of a stepped-up campaign ”to remove the Bushmen and end their way of life”.
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/ 21 September 2005
The mother of one of the sailors who was on the Durban yacht Moquini when it went missing in the Indian Ocean last week is positive her son and the rest of the crew are fine. Her son and the crew were participating in the Mauritius-to-Durban yacht race when they lost communication with race organisers last Tuesday.
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/ 21 September 2005
The first of what Absa says are many benefits in store for its private banking and affluent clients as a result of the acquisition of a majority stake in the South African group by British banking group Barclays in July this year were revealed on Wednesday. Absa is launching the first two offerings in a series of joint lifestyle solutions.
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/ 21 September 2005
The lesson to be learnt from the life of Holocaust survivor and indefatigable Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal is that ”justice does not have a sell-by date”, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) said on Wednesday. ”It has to be striven for unceasingly,” said Michael Bagraim, the national chairperson of the SAJBD.
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/ 21 September 2005
Two members of Algeria’s security services were killed and five injured when a mine went off as an army patrol passed by, newspapers said on Wednesday. The incident occurred in the Msila region, 245km south of the capital, Algiers, the report said.